The government would like to achieve “almost 100% enforcement.” But, while the number of illegal immigrants continues to increase, removal measures are less and less applied. Statistically, an illegal immigrant is more likely to be regularised than to be removed.
Following his arrest, Hassan Iquioussen should have been placed in an administrative detention centre. But when the police arrived at his home, he was not there.
“We want to allow the expulsion of any foreigner found guilty of a serious act … regardless of their condition of presence on the national territory,” Minister Darmanin said.
The news comes only a few weeks after Belgium had stripped the residency permit of the highly popular Muslim cleric Mohamed Toujgani. Toujgani was chief imam of the Al Khalil Grand Mosque in Molenbeek, the Brussels district known as a breeding ground—and place of refuge—for Islamist radicals.
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